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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Decolonisation of Africa 1951-12-24 - 1975-11-11
Civil rights movement 1954-05-17 - 1968-08-01
Algerian War of Independence 1954-11-01 - 1962-03-19
Space Race 1955-07-30 - 1969-07-16
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Sit-in movement 1960-02-01 - 1964-01-01
Congo Crisis 1960-07-05 - 1965-11-25
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Albany Movement 1961-01-01 - 1962-12-01
Apollo Program 1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19

People

Giuseppe Pella age 59
Fernando Tambroni age 60
Joop den Uyl age 42
Behgjet Pacolli age 10
Bakili Muluzi age 18
Ismail Sabri Yaakob age 2
Abdulsalami Abubakar age 19
António Ramalho Eanes age 27
António de Spínola age 51
Milan Milutinović age 19
France-Albert René age 26
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah age 29
Yusof bin Ishak age 51
Jennifer Geerlings-Simons age 8
Ruth Dreifuss age 22
Fradique de Menezes age 19
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 24
Samak Sundaravej age 26
George Maxwell Richards age 30
Yurii Yekhanurov age 13
Juan María Bordaberry age 33
Baldwin Lonsdale age 13
Laurentino Cortizo age 9
Maurice Couve de Murville age 55
Pierre Bérégovoy age 36
Mark W. Clark age 65
B. J. Vorster age 46
Emílio Garrastazu Médici age 56
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen age 15
William Rehnquist age 37
Abd al-Aziz Jarad age 7
Andranik Margaryan age 10
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester age 61
Hussain Muhammad Ershad age 32
Jigme Thinley age 9
Pierre Buyoya age 12
Andrés Pastrana Arango age 7
Salvador Jorge Blanco age 35
Essam Sharaf age 10
Ahmed Nazif age 9
Väinö Tanner age 80
José Mário Vaz age 4
David A. Granger age 16
Erskine Hamilton Childers age 56
Patrick Hillery age 38
Serik Akhmetov age 3
Tammam Salam age 16
Aleksandras Stulginskis age 76
Kazimira Prunskienė age 18
Mohamed Waheed Hassan age 9
Dom Mintoff age 45
Guido de Marco age 30
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines age 71
Myint Swe age 10
Muhammad Ali Bogra age 52
Pedro Santana Lopes age 5
Ralph Gonsalves age 15
Ola Ullsten age 30
Moritz Leuenberger age 15
Johann Schneider-Ammann age 9
Oqil Oqilov age 18
Somchai Wongsawat age 14
Borjana Krišto age 5 months
Café Filho age 63
Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay age 74
Félix Gouin age 77
Ante Marković age 37
John Connally age 44
Merrick Garland age 9
Nandó dos Santos age 11
Baldwin Spencer age 13
Peter Cosgrove age 14
Freundel Stuart age 10
Syarhiey Sidorski age 7
Nicéphore Soglo age 27
Eduardo Rodríguez age 5
Petar Mladenov age 25
Michel Micombero age 21
Belisario Betancur age 39
Sitiveni Rabuka age 13
Kalevi Sorsa age 31
Óscar Berger age 15
Kumba Ialá age 8
Kaysone Phomvihane age 41
Ivars Godmanis age 10
Amine Gemayel age 20
Joseph Boakai age 17
Christopher Loeak age 9
Mihai Ghimpu age 10
Carlos Agostinho do Rosário age 7
Muhammad Mian Soomro age 11
Salam Fayyad age 9
Marien Ngouabi age 23
Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa age 4
Wavel Ramkalawan age 10 months
Devan Nair age 38
Johan Ferrier age 51
Surayud Chulanont age 18
Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 18
Luis Alberto Lacalle age 20
Guy Scott age 17
Valentín Paniagua age 25
Junius Richard Jayewardene age 55
Ye Jianying age 64
Artur da Costa e Silva age 62
Roy Jenkins age 41
J. Sigfrid Edström age 91
Robert Zoellick age 8
Jack Straw age 15
Souvanna Phouma age 60
Ellison Onizuka age 15
Eric Holder age 11
Abd al-Malek Selal age 13
Liamine Zéroual age 20
Johnny Briceño age 1
René Emilio Barrientos Ortuño age 42
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza age 15
Khieu Samphan age 30
Abel Pacheco age 28
Giorgos Vasiliou age 30
Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed age 9
Charles Savarin age 18
León Febres-Cordero age 30
Hilla Limann age 27
Vasiliki Thanou age 11
Konstantinos Tsatsos age 62
Carmen Pereira age 25
Roberto Micheletti age 18
József Antall age 29
Bjarni Benediktsson age 53
Ayad Allawi age 17
Marouf al-Bakhit age 14
Jens Otto Krag age 47
Isa Mustafa age 10
Khamtai Siphandone age 38
Omar Karami age 27
Mahmoud Jibril age 9
Artūras Paulauskas age 8
David Kabua age 10
Nangolo Mbumba age 20
Ludwig Scotty age 13
Madhav Kumar Nepal age 8
Jan P. Syse age 31
Trygve Bratteli age 52
Odvar Nordli age 34
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy age 69
Chivu Stoica age 53
Agathe Uwilingiyimana age 8
Tufuga Efi age 23
Wee Kim Wee age 46
Ignazio Cassis age 9 months
Carlos Vila Nova age 2
Rahmon Nabiyev age 31
Carlos Arias Navarro age 53
Trường Chinh age 55
Garret FitzGerald age 36
John Bruton age 14
Henry Paulson age 15
Larry Summers age 7
Michael Howard age 20
Timothy Geithner age 5 months
Henry Morgenthau Jr. age 70
John Paul Stevens age 41
Sibghatullah Mojaddedi age 36
Abd al-Qadir ibn Saleh age 20
Pedro Eugenio Aramburu age 58
Shahabuddin Ahmed age 32
David Thompson age 1 month
Viačasław Kiebič age 25
Mark Eyskens age 28
Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin age 45
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada age 31
Plamen Oresharski age 1
Elisabeth Domitien age 37
Michel Djotodia age 13
Virgilio Barco Vargas age 40
Jiří Rusnok age 1
Ahmed Shafik age 20
Joseph Arthur Ankrah age 46
Panagiotis Pikrammenos age 16
Christos Sartzetakis age 32
Boniface Alexandre age 25
Nasry Asfura age 3
Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh age 51
Seán T. O'Kelly age 79
Elias Hrawi age 35
Pakalitha Mosisili age 16
Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi age 24
Pravind Jugnauth age 1 month
Emilio Portes Gil age 71
Jhala Nath Khanal age 11
Enrique Bolaños age 33
Mahamane Ousmane age 12
Murtala Muhammed age 23
Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi age 37
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 29
Radu Vasile age 19
Petre Roman age 15
Mame Madior Boye age 21
Manasseh Sogavare age 7